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Community Health Nurses: Advocates for Underserved Populations

Every Nurse

They work closely with healthcare providers, social workers, and community organizations to ensure seamless coordination of care. Diverse cultural beliefs, language proficiency, and limited health literacy can impede effective communication and understanding of healthcare information.

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Using complaints to improve aged care

Nursing Review

For in-home care, the highest number of complaints related to lack of consultation or communication, costs, and consistency of client care and coordination. Ongoing workforce development can help the aged care sector in responding to these issues.

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The Six Domains of Health Care Quality — New Considerations

Relias

By focusing on the six domains as an operational framework, healthcare organizations would have a higher probability of both reducing errors and improving the overall quality of health care that they provide. It also suggested care coordination and health systems infrastructure capabilities as new domains.

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Heart failure management: Updated guidelines

American Nurse

Palliative care The updated guidelines recommend palliative care and management to optimize patient outcomes and end-of-life quality. For patients with advanced HF, particularly Stage D, palliative care aids communication to address prognosis, life-extending therapies vs. treatment discontinuation, symptom management, and hospice.

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Home health nursing

American Nurse

After the assessment, a physician or allowed provider signs orders (which include the patient’s plan of care) for home healthcare. The American Nurses Association’s Home Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice provides an overview of expectations and competencies of the professional nurse. American Nurse Journal. 2024; 19(6).